Eric Swalwell

Even though last night at the State of the Union, you did not hear one single word from the President about gun violence.

Maybe it is because the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas could articulate what the beautiful babies at Sandy Hook could not.

I do not know why Parkland changed the way that our country started to look at this.

Australia enacted a comprehensive buyback on assault weapons. It was about 650,000 assault weapons.

You should have the right to learn, the right to go home, and the right to live in your classrooms.

I am very passionate about, which is, having a ban on assault weapons.

I fear every day as they are out on the beat, that they are out gunned.

If we reduce to take the most dangerous weapons, like assault rifles out of the hands of the most dangerous people, we can seriously reduce, in our lifetime, the number of families who would have to sit in the Gallery and experience that…

I learned as a prosecutor that when a round flies out of an assault weapon, oftentimes, because of the pistol grip you can indiscriminately spray a crowd.

If that is your standard, then we should just all go home and never strive to do anything to make us safer in our communities.

We want to make sure the president of the United States is not financially compromised.

What the president sees as presidential harassment is really the end of presidential immunity.

The best way for our economy to move forward is if we do not become Russia.

If we work together on background checks and mental health illness, which I believe is correctly identified as another issue.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of Congresswoman Bass about the sort of very disappointing positions of two of our witnesses...

It is rigged gerrymandered maps where politicians from both parties protect their friends and the status quo.

This committee has done it before. In 2006, Congressman Sensenbrenner led a successful effort to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and we need you to do so again.

I have concluded that it is the dirty maps and the dirty money.

I am afraid about how I am going to be scored.

But my constituents ask and people I encounter across the country always ask, if we have reached consensus where 90 percent of Americans think we should have background checks, the majority of Americans believe that climate change is…

Republican opposition to these reforms... is obvious because they benefit from this broken system, as do their donors and their super PACs.

It is past time to build a 21st century democracy that represents our growing and diverse nation--a democracy that welcomes every person's voice and participation--because for too long voter suppression has been a shameful reality in our…

This is not a partisan concern. This is about whether or not we are a healthy democracy, and it is an embarrassment and a disgrace that we compel people to spend four hours standing on a line to exercise their right as citizens to…

I cannot imagine how we can think it is positive that in Harris County the election judge had to extend the polling place hours because people had to stand in line so long because the machines were malfunctioning.

I cannot imagine how anyone could think that voters waiting on line in the morning for four hours in Gwinnett County, Georgia, because the machines lacked the power cords, how anyone could think that was a good thing.